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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

Susan Sontag

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
SUSAN SONTAG

Job Life Myself Poet Writing
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Book End Photography
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Connection Inspirational Pay
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAG

Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
SUSAN SONTAG

Ability Exercise Literature
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Cameras Photography
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
SUSAN SONTAG

Existence Science Space Time
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
SUSAN SONTAG

Book Dream Memories
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
SUSAN SONTAG

Myself Solitude Wait
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
SUSAN SONTAG

Change Direction People
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
SUSAN SONTAG

Live Old Oneself Recognition
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
SUSAN SONTAG

Attention Thinking World

In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

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